Allah is perfect in his capricious exercise of absolute power and can even nullify the authority of his word in the Koran through abrogation. Therefore, human perfection must therefore be realized by accumulating power. Thus Islam resembles Nietzsche.

The Russian Orthodox Church seeks to counter what it describes as a vicious campaign against its churches and clerics. Thousands of Russians are rising in support of two women jailed for staging an illegal performance in Moscow's largest church.

The US Conference of Catholic bishops has issued a Freedom of Information Act request to the Obama administration in order to find out th erationale for demanding that Catholic hospitals provide sterilization and abortion.